Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Jimmy Kimmel Live is a late-night talk show in the United States created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcasted from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Despite the name, the show is actually taped an hour before it begins airing in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. The hour-long program premiered after Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003 on ABC. It airs weeknights at 12:05am (11:05pm Central Standard Time), resulting in the show beginning in the middle of competitors The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, and ending in the middle of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Late Show.
Music is provided by the band Cleto and the Cletones, led by Jimmy Kimmel's childhood friend, Cleto. Kimmel's actual relatives, Uncle Frank and Cousin Sal, are "characters" that appear on the program in many episodes. Uncle Frank is often set out to do reporting on the red carpet of a movie premiere or awards show, where he will do things like mistake the celebrity he is talking to for a different person. Cousin Sal usually does skits out of the studio such as impersonating a store employee and purposely giving customers bad service, insulting them, or giving them something they did not order/ask for. There is a musical performance at the end of the show, that performs on either an indoor or outdoor stage. Early episodes of the show had a different announcer each night and a different co-host each week. The stage the show is firmed on has gone through many changes, from the addition of a platform in front of the stage for Jimmy to do his monologue on, to various stage backgrounds.
On Fridays there is a segment called "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship", a parody on the FCC's censorship rules, where TV clips are unnecessarily bleeped and blurred. Clips from news, shows, or events during the week will have a perfectly clean word bleeped and the mouths blurred in a way that makes it sound/look like the person in the clip had said a inappropriate word. Blurring is also done to make, for example, a wave to a crowd, look like an inappropriate gesture. Despite that, anything that they "censor" on that segment is completely clean.
Kimmel has also recruited Andy Milonakis, a fat kid who has become an Internet phenomenon to be a regular on the show in 2003-2004.
External links
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- ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live website (http://abc.go.com/primetime/jimmykimmel/)